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TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects

By : Ankit Jain, Amita Kapoor
Book Image

TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects

By: Ankit Jain, Amita Kapoor

Overview of this book

TensorFlow has transformed the way machine learning is perceived. TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects teaches you how to exploit the benefits—simplicity, efficiency, and flexibility—of using TensorFlow in various real-world projects. With the help of this book, you’ll not only learn how to build advanced projects using different datasets but also be able to tackle common challenges using a range of libraries from the TensorFlow ecosystem. To start with, you’ll get to grips with using TensorFlow for machine learning projects; you’ll explore a wide range of projects using TensorForest and TensorBoard for detecting exoplanets, TensorFlow.js for sentiment analysis, and TensorFlow Lite for digit classification. As you make your way through the book, you’ll build projects in various real-world domains, incorporating natural language processing (NLP), the Gaussian process, autoencoders, recommender systems, and Bayesian neural networks, along with trending areas such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), capsule networks, and reinforcement learning. You’ll learn how to use the TensorFlow on Spark API and GPU-accelerated computing with TensorFlow to detect objects, followed by how to train and develop a recurrent neural network (RNN) model to generate book scripts. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the required expertise to build full-fledged machine learning projects at work.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Decision tree-based ensemble methods


In this section let us explore briefly two kinds of ensemble methods for decision trees: random forests and gradient boosting.

Random forests

Random forests is a technique where you construct multiple trees, and then use those trees to learn the classification and regression models, but the results are aggregated from the trees to produce a final result.

Random forests are an ensemble of random, uncorrelated, and fully-grown decision trees. The decision trees used in the random forest model are fully grown, thus, having low bias and high variance. The trees are uncorrelated in nature, which results in a maximum decrease in the variance. By uncorrelated, we imply that each decision tree in the random forest is given a randomly selected subset of features and a randomly selected subset of the dataset for the selected features.

Note

The original paper describing random forests is available at the following link: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~breiman/randomforest2001...